Climate change has shown itself recently in the recent flooding across the UK. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA.

Climate change takes on added significance this week as thousands of people across the UK take part in Climate Week, a national campaign to raise awareness of the issue and steps that can be taken to address it.

This week we have a collection of resources to help your students explore the wider issue of climate change and its potential impact.

Have I Got Climate Science For You is an engaging interactive quiz from the Science Museum that asks students to apply their knowledge of climate change and think about its implications. There's also a climate report activity designed to help students understand the difference between weather and climate, and to consider the impact that climate change can have on their and other people's lifestyles. Carbon Cycle Caper is an activity in which students play out the carbon cycle, to understand how it has been affected by our use of fossil fuels since the industrial revolution and how this underlies current worries about climate change.

Climate change controversies: A simple guide provides a user-friendly overview of the scientific understanding of climate change. Produced by the Royal Society, the document gives answers to eight of the most commonly asked questions about the science of climate change. There's also Climate Change: A Summary of the Science. It looks at the current scientific evidence on climate change, highlighting the areas where the science is well established, where there is still some debate, and where substantial uncertainties remain.

Combating climate change is a resource from the EU Commission that focuses on the EU's commitment to cut emissions of greenhouse gases by at least 20% by 2020. It draws students' attention to ways of using energy resources more sustainably, switching to more renewable forms of energy, capturing and storing carbon dioxide and reversing deforestation.

The Climate Change resource pack includes an eight-page student booklet that features summaries of the world's climate, the greenhouse effect, the human contribution to climate change, the effects of climate change, and what can be done about it, created by BP Educational Service.

Big Picture Health and Climate Change is a magazine that explores the potential impact of climate change on human health and includes interviews with people whose lives are directly affected by climate change.